Vegetables and pasta dishes are a staple of the Lenten season, and seafood also serves as a popular substitute for meats and poultry. As parents of picky eaters can attest, encouraging children, particularly toddlers or early grade-schoolers, to dig into a seafood meal can be a struggle. However, fish sticks can make a fish dinner…

Greenhouses are structures that can help hobbyists or professional farmers extend growing seasons and improve yields. Even though traditional greenhouses can improve conditions for growth, certain variables can still affect output. That’s where smart greenhouses come into play. Farming requires reliance on intuition, but also on control of environmental factors like insects, irrigation and light.…

Innovative program providing free local restaurant meals continues Vermont Everyone Eats (VEE), the unique Covid-19 recovery program that provides Vermonters impacted by Covid-19 with prepared meals made by Vermont restaurants using locally grown and produced ingredients, will continue through July 1, 2022. The program had previously been set to end on March 31 but will…

By Dave Hoffenberg Editor's note: These are just a sampling of the top spring events. For a full line-up pick up a copy of the Mountain Times newspaper or visit mountaintimes.info/calendar. Punxsutawney Phil said we’d have six more weeks of winter from Ground Hogs Day, Feb. 2. That gets us through this week, expiring March…

Mar. 17-19 — NORTHFIELD — Pegasus Players, Norwich University’s theater club, will present “Chicago” at 7:30 p.m. Mar. 17, 18 and 19 in Mack Hall auditorium. This performance is free and open to the public. In roaring 1920s Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the…

For almost 20 years the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association (CCCA) has produced an annual calendar to celebrate some aspect of rural Cavendish life. The calendars do not contain photos taken by professional photographers, but pictures taken by you and your friends and neighbors. Pictures have to reflect an aspect of Cavendish and Proctorsville. The…

Saturday, Mar. 19 — LUDLOW — The Ludlow Rotary Club and the United Church of Ludlow are combining efforts to raise money for humanitarian relief of the besieged people of the Ukraine on Saturday, Mar. 19 at the United Church, located at the corner of Elm and Pleasant streets. According to George Thomson, they plan…

Killington snowboarding event raised $5,000 to empower youth By Brooke Geery Killington Resorted hosted the 8th annual Slash and Berm banked slalom last weekend. The event was organized by Darkside and Burton Snowboards, and a portion of each entry went to benefit Chill, a Burlington-based organization that uses snowboarding to empower youth. Over $5,000 was…

Tuesday, March 15 at 7 p.m. — RUTLAND — Paramount Theatre offers a free film. No tickets will be necessary for “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner,” starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Katharine Houghton. Mr. Poitier became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1964 for his…

Sunday, March 13, 12:55 – 3:45 p.m. — RUTLAND— Paramount Theatre will host the encore presentation of “Ariadne Auf Naxos” by Richard Strauss. The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece. The outstanding cast also features mezzo-soprano Isabel…

March 5 to April 8 — RUTLAND —The Chaffee Art Center hosts a showcase of young artists from Vermont schools and homeschoolers in pre-K to Grade 12 for this annual student exhibit. Its goal for this exhibit is to provide talented young people the opportunity to see their work and the works of others displayed…

Tuesday, March 15, 7 p.m. — VIRTUAL— The Sourcebooks BookLight events series presents a Women’s History Month event with authors Marie Benedict, Kate Moore, Heather Webb, and Katharine Gregorio and host Mary O’Malley of Skylark Bookshop. The authors will be speaking about how they told the stories of forgotten women in history who are showcased…

'The Conductor' screens at Billings Farm & Museum Saturday, Mar. 12 at 3 and 5:30 p.m. — WOODSTOCK — Despite being told “girls can’t do that” and being repeatedly rejected by the establishment of classical music, Marin Alsop persisted and never let go of her dream of becoming a conductor. Set to a breathtaking soundtrack…

Pi Day is officially March 14 but you can celebrate anytime. Whether you are hosting a small group at home or have been invited to someone’s house to socialize, offering a homemade treat can show others how much you care. Few people can resist the combination of chocolate and nuts, and that’s what dessert lovers…

Saturday, Mar. 12 at 7:30 p.m. — PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts presents "Gamelan Galak Tika" on Mar. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance or $22 at the door. "Gamelan Galak Tika" has been at the forefront of innovative, cross-cultural music for Balinese gamelan since 1993. Led by composer Evan Ziporyn, Galak…